QuickCheck: Can Plants See?

The Star ^ | 11/29 | NIKLAS ALBAKRI

[Sacajaweau]

I never undress in front of my plants.

[Red Badger]

Many plants react to touch, and to shadows on their leaves................

[hinckley buzzard]

Interesting. I knew a professor in grad school who was trying to classically condition a Venus fly trap to close on a conditioned stimulus rather than an actual physical trigger. Didn’t work.

[rightwingcrazy]

Potatoes, maybe.

[Adder]

Can’t tell...leaves are in the way...

[SaveFerris]

Had a Dieffenbachia in 1979 - saw it turn towards the Sun

Which is not surprising and expected

I heard it move its leaves and turned around to see them shaking as it turned towards the Eastern Sunrise 🌄.

It had just overcome the tension of rotating

[SaveFerris]

Rotating along the central wrap of multiple branches

[SaveFerris]

😜

[Leaning Right]

Can plants see? According to Christopher Walken, the answer is yes.

[V K Lee]

Find a field of blooming sunflowers. Watch them turn their
heads as the sun marches across the sky. They manage without sunglasses. Venus flytraps, for the most part, are very successful in catching their prey. Ask any optometrist if he as ever perscribed glasses and to what species.

[Rastus]

Do geese see God?

[Roadrunner383]

Can plants see?

I’m going to go out on a limb, and say no.

[Boogieman]

Well, we know plants can detect light, but this kind of thing would seem to require something like a nervous system and not simply the ability to sense light...

[Boogieman]

“I’m going to go out on a limb, and say no.”

I don’t think you’ve gotten to the roots of the problem.

[SaveFerris]

Maybe plants have fiber op?

We’ll have to branch out with our thinking

I wood think about stalking the plants to find out but it’s probably better if we leaf 🌿 them alone.

[mewzilla]

Ask these guys.

[algore]

Very interesting, thanks.

There is also some research on forest networks, and how trees talk to each other over fugal networks.

https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2019/exploring-the-underground-network-of-trees-the-nervous-system-of-the-forest/

[cpdiii]

The light from the plant is is climbing on will affect a shadow and thus the vine can perceive the shape of the other and mimics it.

[plain talk]